How to Save Videos From Facebook to My Phone

How To Save Videos From Facebook To My Phone - In this tutorial, we will be teaching Facebook users ways to download or save video on Facebook Lite to their Android phone without using any third-party apps. By following the guidelines below, you will have the ability to directly download videos you see on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook introduced Lite in few Africa and Asia countries in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to lots of other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't takes in data like the main app. Apart from these, it likewise runs well on bad network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, many brand-new functions were included amongst which is the ability to watch video shared, posted, which are visible on timeline. However, Facebook did not give users the ability to download the video.

How To Save Videos From Facebook To My Phone


There's a catch though, we wagered a number of you would have observe it. You will notice that when you click the video you wish to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the gamer will first pack for some seconds prior to the video start to play. You will likewise observe that when the video stop playing and you go back maybe to your timeline, if you click the video again it won't take time to pack like the first time, it will just play straight.

This offer us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the very first time and when you attempt to play it again it will just load from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our response.

The procedure we are about to share does not exist anywhere on the internet, you are fortunate to be the very first to discover this trick.

On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you will view before you click on it as shown in the photo above. Focus on the megabyte due to the fact that you are going to need it if you are getting this guide right. Now, lets proceed.

You are going to need the following apps, not essential however they will assist.

1.)  ES File Explorer
2.)  MX Video Gamer

All videos viewed on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We suggest you watch a video on Lite before you continue, this will develop the folder we are about to show you.

In our own case, we utilize ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file manager of your choice.

1.) Open ES Explorer, locate a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder called "information", open it. It will lead you to where is displayed in the above picture (We change the folder view to "Medium Particulars" under More -> View in ES UI). Among the folders, you will see one called "com.facebook.lite", open it.

2.) In the "com.facebook.lite" folder you will see "cache" folder, open it.

3.) In the "cache" folder, locate "video" folder and open it.

4.) In our own case, there are four various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might find more. Nevertheless, it is crucial to let you know that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you see on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are called in random letters that looks like jargons.

5.) Opening one of these video folders there are 2 files inside, one called "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders revealed in step 4 contains only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are trying to find. All the 4 folders consists of the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you enjoy on Facebook Lite.

6.) If you are utilizing ES, simply click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, choose a video player (or MX Player) and BOOMMM! the video will begin playing. You can do likewise for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to view the cached Facebook Lite videos.

Please Note: The "0000000000000000" does not reveal as video file when view by file supervisor due to the fact that it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video players set up won't have the ability to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security procedure. You need to open it straight with a video gamer to be able to see as a video.

 

Each time you watch a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone sd card. By following the steps above, you can rename the "00000000000000" which is the video file and enjoy it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep conserve. Such articles How To Save Videos From Facebook To My Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.